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A-1 APPENDIX A COAL UNSUITABILITY CRITERIA DESCRIPTION OF THE FEDERAL LANDS INVOLVED This unsuitability analysis has been prepared for the proposed Spruce Stomp Lease by Application (LBA) COC-75916. LEGAL DESCRIPTION: COC-75916 Township 12 South, Range 91 West, 6th P. M Section 31: Lots 11 through 26 inclusive Section 32: Lots 10 through 15 inclusive Township 12 South, Range 92 West, 6th P.M. Section 36: S2 Township 13 South, Range 92 West, 6th P.M. Section 1: Lots 5 through 8 inclusive Township 13 South, Range 91 West, 6th P.M. Section 5: lots 2, 3, 4, 10, & 11, W/2W/2NENE, NWNE, NESWNE, SESWNE,N/2NWSWNE, N/2NW,N/2N/2SENW, E/2NW/SE, W/2W/2NESE, N/2NENESE, NENWNESE; Section 6: Lots 1 through 4 inclusive *containing 1,789.2 acres more or less Bowie Resources, LLC (Bowie) submitted an application on October 12, 2012 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seeking to lease federal coal. The BLM Uncompahgre Field Office (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service, Paonia Ranger District (Forest Service or USFS), have lands which are under consideration within the proposed coal lease on National Forest System (NFS) and Public Lands. The BLM notified the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG) that Bowie applied for a competitive coal lease-by-application (LBA), COC- 75916 (1,789.2 acres), immediately adjacent to existing coal leases held by Bowie. Within the LBA tract, the Forest Service manages 1,332.6 surface acres, BLM manages 88.4 surface acres, and the remaining 368.2 acres are private surface with public minerals. All of the coal mineral estate is administered by the BLM. The application area contains approximately 8.02 million tons of coal. The BLM is required by law to consider leasing federal coal for economic recovery. As a first step in this analysis, areas were identified that would likely to be affected by subsidence causing surface effects. Other post-leasing surface disturbance that could be